Does pre-exposure inhibit fear context conditioning? A Virtual Reality Study

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 709-719

  Tröger, Christian ^a   Ewald, Heike ^a   Glotzbach, Evelyn ^a   Pauli, Paul ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Context conditioning; Fear conditioning; Psychophysiology; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRE EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84863496809     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-011-0757-8     Document Type: Article

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